India refrained from signing the Declaration on Climate and Health, a document that was endorsed by 123 nations in the COP28 held in UAE in the first half of December…
Global warming can add one more notch to its gun belt. The rapid onset of global warming is turning Alaska’s wilderness rivers orange. Global warming impacts Arctic temperatures 2-4 times…
Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and he has succeeded in many ways, especially for…
Weather-induced Disaster Displacement (WiDD) will be disruptive, leading to migration in Southeast Asia and accompanying climate disruption and global warming. Due to humankind’s insistence on unsustainable development and rising greenhouse…
With increasing realization that the earth’s basic life-nurturing conditions are threatened by man-made factors, the world has responded in a number of ways ranging from climate change commitments to treaties…
UN climate conferences since 1992 have failed to follow thru with results, as CO2 emissions continue higher and higher with every passing year. In fact, post climate conference impact of…
Economic and social inequalities have historically been a very important aspect of injustice, but in addition these have also resulted in some other important distortions which are not so well…
“Without major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C by 2100”.(NASA 2023) “We Will Not Sign Our Own Death Warrant” (a delegate…
The planet is facing multiple severe challenges that require our immediate attention. Putting an end to the dirty and suffocating fossil fuel emissions may be the most significant global priority,…
A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that…
Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for climate action centered on birthright equity is building momentum. Planet Earth is in crisis. Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity is…
About 3.2 million Americans have moved due to the mounting risk of flooding, the First Street Foundation (FSF), a nonprofit research group, said in a report that focuses on so-called "climate abandonment…
The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows…
Northern Greenland is under attack by global warming at the same time as delegates to COP28 heap praise on a purported landmark deal to transition out of fossil fuels but…
The global climate agreement that emerged from Dubai is literally meaningless—and potentially meaningful. Now it's up to us. As North America slept, delegates from around the world concluded the global…
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed on 13 December 2023 with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the…
In the UN climate summit in Dubai, delegates were working into extra hours, to salvage the COP 28, with a second crack at a deal that has them debating language…
A host nation that promises progress but relies on regressive policies is revealing just how seriously fossil fuel interests have coopted UN climate talks. In January 2023, nearly a year…
The last time that levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were as high as they are today, Greenland was free of ice and the savanna and grassland ecosystems where humans evolved…
Basics of Climate Change Natural ecosystems comprise a particular physical environment and a set of living organisms. The ecosystems keep evolving as different organisms act and interact. The energy of…
COP28, the UN Conference of the Parties in oil-rich Dubai, currently underway, will not resolve the issue of oil and gas companies agreeing to slow down oil production. To the…
Camille Chaudron was among a dozen people arrested on Thursday while helping climate activists block the Concorde Bridge in Paris, next to Parliament, to demand the government spend more on…
It is welcome that over 80000 participants from around the globe have gathered in Dubai to deliberate on the strategies to mitigate the climate crisis which if not checked would…
COP28, the United Nation’s climate Summit is being held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 30 November to 12 December 2023. Some 200 government representatives, the signatories…
The issue, betrayed, is nothing more and nothing less than the future of a multitude of species on Earth, including Homo sapiens. As confirmed by the acceleration of climate extremes,…
The sequence of COP meetings, ostensibly a United Nations forum to discuss dramatic climate change measures in the face of galloping emissions, has now been shown for what it is:…
Hypocrisy runs rampant at COP28 even before the doors swung open to 70,000 delegates on Thursday, November 30th. This is the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference or Conference of the…
I’ve been arguing now for a year and a half that the enactment of bold new climate policies—bold enough to quickly drive US greenhouse-gas emissions down to zero—can succeed only…
It is unlikely that COP 28 will ignore the stark and bitter reality of the failure to achieve adequate reduction in GHG emissions. The facts in this context are all…
Faced with the gut-wrenching horrors occurring in the Ukraine, Ethiopia, Sudan, Myanmar and the Middle East, it’s hard to fathom that an even more calamitous global tragedy is already upon…
Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear…
Many articles on environmental topics are secular homilies, bristling with shoulds and shouldn’ts. Don’t use a gasoline-powered leaf blower. Buy an electric car instead of a gas-powered car. Eat organically grown food. Use…
It’s 35 years since formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.” Subsequently, COP21 at Paris ‘15 warned…
The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extreme weather events…
A report prepared by Oxfam GB with the help of Stockholm Environment Institute released recently on November 20 2023 has stated that carbon emissions of the richest 1 per cent…
by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy It is no joke; the man who will preside over the upcoming climate summit, COP28 (which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from November 30…
The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66% in 2019, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate…
A very important but neglected dimension of the efforts to resolve climate change and related serious environmental problems concerns the social values and relationships among people. To bring out the…
The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, data shared by a…
When it is scientifically realized that a very serious threat to the planet is being caused by the excessive exploitation and use of some materials, then the obvious response should…
Climate change mitigation and adaptation are two of the most important challenges before humanity. These as well as a number of other serious environmental problems taken together now threaten to…
COP 28 will be held at a time of increasing, perhaps overwhelming evidence that the targets set earlier to restrict global warming to 1.5 degree C above pre-industrial levels and…
“$200 trillion is needed to stop global warming” (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai.…
Last month the US EIA predicted that we will keep using fossil fuels at present scale past 2050. Another new report predicts that instead of the imperative reduction of emissions by half…
How to Fix the Climate Crisis is a multifaceted affair; a National Geographic November 2023 article, The Race to Save the Planet, Can Technology Help Fix the Climate Crisis? that…
EU scientists have declared that 2023 is set to be the warmest year recorded in the past 125,000 years, after data from last month showed that October had shattered previous temperature…
Israel and Palestine constitute a region which is a climate hot spot with its people being highly vulnerable to various adverse impacts of climate change and the wider environmental crisis.…
National Geographic’s November 2023 cover story is entitled The Race to Save the Planet. Can Technology Help Fix the Climate Crisis? by Sam Howe Verhovek. This headline puts climate change…
New studies show the Arctic heating up 4-times the overall rate of global warming. This startling rate in one of the most sensitive environments in the world could trigger toxic…
“The climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks” Wallace Smith Broecker Having turned a deaf ear to the basic laws of nature, ignoring the…
Last month, 29 of the world’s prominent scientists published a paper in the journal Science Advances showing conclusively that given the worsening of climate change, biodiversity loss, and five other…
Abstract Many well-meaning writers attempt to advise governments and UNFCCC on the actions they should adopt to tackle climate change. Is such advice heeded? More importantly, can governments and UNFCCC…
Global warming is consuming vast portions of the planet with a swagger that defies all expectations. Rivers in the Amazon rainforest are drying up. This is not supposed to be…
The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates…
The past couple of years in Antarctica have been a rough and tumble affair of erratic climate change with record-high temperatures and totally unexpected ice shelf collapse. The continent is…
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday. An AP…
“Climate breakdown has begun. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Source: 2024 Likely to be Hottest Year on Record, Phys.org, September 6,…
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) moves warm water from the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and the South Atlantic into the North Atlantic where it cools, sinks and flows…
At least 75,000 marched in New York City on September 17, quite impressive, inspiring to be a part of. As compared to previous marches, last seen pre-Covid, there were more…
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of New York on Sunday as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels, calling for increased action against climate change…
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